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New Zealand
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www.nzonair.govt.nz
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Fax: 04 382 9546
1 February 2021
Daymond David Goulder-Horobin
By email
: [FYI request #14006 email]
Dear
Official Information request and response
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act (“OIA”) dated 12 January 2021.
You have requested:
As it is now January and it was stated that the production be completed in December. I wil
repeat my request for the information that was previously protected.
1. I request all material submitted and correspondence to NZ On Air regarding the funding of
Circuit 2 for Stuff as shown as previously mentioned. This includes the original proposal for the
funding, in whatever format it was presented in.
2. I request the terms of the contract signed and enforced under section 43 of the Broadcasting
Act 1989 of the Circuit 2 funding to Stuff.
Regarding item 1, due to scheduling priorities of the platform and variability in the production house
workload, this project is still in production. We are waiting a new estimated date of delivery. As such
under section 9(2)(b) of the OIA we are withholding the proposal and planning documents provided for
this project, as they are still considered commercially sensitive information. Once this project has been
fully broadcast/released we wil be happy to reconsider your request and may be in a position to release
some of the information we have redacted or withheld. Please contact us again at that time with a new
request.
Regarding item 2, we have already provided the terms of the contract in our previous OIA response to
you, dated 16 November 2020.
For your information, funding provided by NZ On Air for all successful projects is searchable on our
website. You can also sign up to receive our bi-monthly industry newsletter via our website.
You have the right to refer this response to the Ombudsman if you are dissatisfied with it. More
information on how to do this is
here. NZ On Air proactively releases information in accordance with the
Government’s commitment to the Open Government Partnership National Action Plan. This includes
Connecting and reflecting our nation
publishing responses to requests for information under the OIA. Please note that this response (with your
name removed) wil be published on the NZ On Air website shortly and will remain on our website for 12
months.
Thank you for your interest in our work.
Yours sincerely
Clare Helm
HEAD OF CORPORATE SERVICES
Connecting and reflecting our nation